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Agricultural Entomology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 230

Q230

Bacillus thuringiensis was discovered by

A.
S. Ishiwata
Answer
B.
Berliner
C.
Flemming
D.
Frisch

Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
Bacillus thuringiensis was discovered by S. Ishiwata.
Ishiwata named the bacterium Bacillus sotto. A few years thereafter, in 1911, German scientist Ernst Berliner isolated a related strain from dead Mediterranean flour moth larvae he found in a flour mill in the German state of Thuringia. He appropriately named the organism Bacillus thuringiensis.